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Brian Cant has died at age 83 :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40335213

You have to be from a certain age group to remember him from Play Away and Play School, but he, Derek Griffiths, Toni Arthur and Chloe Ashcroft were my TV aunts and uncles growing up...
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    Ahh, one of my childhood favourites, I certainly watched Play Away well past the target age. Parkinson's is a pretty terrible way to go as well. 
    Sad, RIP Brian.
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    Very sad.
    just the mention of his name transports me back 40 or so years. Thanks, Brian.

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  • cruxiformcruxiform Frets: 2339
    Bless him. Grew up with Brian Cant on the TV . RIP.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    :(

    RIP Brian.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • jonnyburgojonnyburgo Frets: 11799
    Gimme a P. Gimme an L..etc....RIP
    "OUR TOSSPOT"
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  • stickersticker Frets: 868
    Pugh , Pugh , Barney Mcgrew ,Cuthbert ,Dibble , Grubb... R.I.P .
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    Brian Cant was such a good children's entertainer. Him and Derek Griffiths were both brilliant. RIP Brian
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  • Bygone_TonesBygone_Tones Frets: 1521
    Loved Brian Cant when I was a kid. He seemed to disappear from TV overnight and then never came back.
    Bygone Tones - Vintage Guitar Speakers & Cabinets
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  • AlnicoAlnico Frets: 4610
    Wow.
    What a great guy.
    Play school and playaway......
    "PLAYAWAAAAAAAAY" !!

    Memories abound. 
    RIP.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    So soon after John Noakes, both mainstays of 60s/70s kids telly.
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  • TheBlueWolfTheBlueWolf Frets: 1536
    A legend. RIP :(

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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    I remember him off Play Away, etc but it was only last night I found out he did the voices for Trumpton too!
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  • slackerslacker Frets: 2093
    I remember him on Play School. 

    When my children were actually children we would go to the local Panto every year. Best one was Brian Cant as Baron Hardup. He seemed to enjoy what he was doing and was an excellent entertainer. 
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  • FX_MunkeeFX_Munkee Frets: 2467
    Another piece of my childhood gone, he was the face of childrens TV for me and a lot of others I think, RIP.

    As an aside has anybody else noticed that Floella Benjamin doesn't appear to be aging at all?
    I'm concerned that she may be an android, sent from the future to destroy us.
    Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame, you give love a bad name. Not to mention archery tuition.
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  • RocknRollDaveRocknRollDave Frets: 6075
    FX_Munkee said:
    Another piece of my childhood gone, he was the face of childrens TV for me and a lot of others I think, RIP.

    As an aside has anybody else noticed that Floella Benjamin doesn't appear to be aging at all?
    I'm concerned that she may be an android, sent from the future to destroy us.
    Saw Floella on the BBC Chelsea Flower Show coverage a couple of weeks or so back and commented on how she must have a portrait in her attic. She hasn't aged a DAY since I watched her on Playschool FORTY YEARS AGO!

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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    FX_Munkee said:

    As an aside has anybody else noticed that Floella Benjamin doesn't appear to be aging at all?
    I'm concerned that she may be an android, sent from the future to destroy us.
    Yeah she's in league with Hamble. Look out everyone, keep watching the skies!
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  • ZenOvertoneZenOvertone Frets: 230
    I remember the live music on Play Away too :-)
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  • Bygone_TonesBygone_Tones Frets: 1521
    ZenOvertone said:
    I remember the live music on Play Away too :-)
    Yep, thats where Guns n Roses made their first TV appearance in the UK.
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  • ROOGROOG Frets: 549
    RIP Brian, I remember him in kids telly in the 60's and in dapple down farm in the 90's watching with my kids! 

     

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  • JCA2550JCA2550 Frets: 417
    ZenOvertone said:
    I remember the live music on Play Away too :-)
    Great house band on Play Away, a bit like the David Letterman band for 10 to 30 year olds doing slightly rude nursery rhymes. The band leader was Jonathan Cohen who played a orange and white stripey upright piano and occasionally the marvelously titled Dill Katz on bass
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  • equalsqlequalsql Frets: 5849
    One of my favourite voices ever on BBC. Camberwick Green, Trumpton. A truly unsung hero of children's television.
    RIP Brian.
    (pronounced: equal-sequel)   "I suffered for my art.. now it's your turn"
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    I'm becoming significantly less enamoured with this whole getting older and everyone dying malarkey :'(
    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    I hope the real reason he wasn't Sir Brian was because he turned one down, not because one was never offered. How on earth did Floella Benjamin become a Dame?
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